[Server-devel] Looking for new low power server hardware candidate

[Sridhar Dhanapalan]

On 14 April 2012 01:37, Martin Langhoff <martin.langhoff at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 13, 2012 at 12:28 AM, Sridhar Dhanapalan
> <sridhar at laptop.org.au> wrote:
>> appliance runs nothing more than ejabberd. There's no moodle, dhcp,
>> dns or other services.
>
> How does the appliance get a domain name?

IP addresses will suffice to begin with.

Ideally, I think we'd want to have the servers be auto-detected on the
network and available to select by the XO. Ideas to implement this
include making them show in the Neighbourhood View and a selector in
the Network CP applet.

>> Then the children just set a collaboration server to connect to in the
>> Network CP applet. They use the address of the appliance for their
>> classroom. This achieves a segregation effect in a simple way.
>
> How do kids know what domain name to put in there? Isn't it a complex
> and error-prone step?

Typing an IP address into the client is far less complicated than
setting up and maintaining an XS server.

Sridhar